St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-13
TWO DAVY GIRLS
Mysterious Relations Between the Waits
in Male Attire and Burglar
Shot in Rochester.
The Two Wild Girls Tell Many Stories
Concerning Their Escapades Down
in New York.
Was Dean, Whom One Had Married.,
the Man Named Green, Killed
Last Saturday,


Last Saturday..
How the Two Look and Ta1k-They
VIII Not Go to Calgary to Meet
Ltly's Lover
The shooting of a burglar at Jamestown.
n. y, Saturday morning. has laid open
the way to revelation of mysterious cir
cumstances which promises to rival the
now famous Kissane mystery. 1t will be
remembered that little more than month
ago two young girls named Lily and Katie
Davy, aged 16 and IA respectively, were
apprehended at Window, Mimi, IN male
attire. They were not arrested.
but were sent to Agent Hutchins.
OF the Relief society in st. Paul.
who took an interest in them after hearing
their plausible story, and secured the girls
situations in respectable family residing
III the Hamline suburbs, pending an investi-
CATION of their case. The substance of
their story was that they had left their
home in Rochester, n. Y, and started TO
beat Their way to Calgary. N. W. T.,
where Lily, the eldest, had lover named
Byers. whom she was to marry. Through
inquiries made of the authorities at Roch-
ester and Calgary Agent Hutchins learned
that ByerS already had two wives living.
one in New York and one in Minneapolis.
and that at Calgary he was regarded as
a very tough character, and denied any
knowledge of the Davy girls. On March
IL Ellen Byers woman of considerable
wealth, whom Byers had married in 1879,
secured decree of divorce from the Mime
apols courts. but so far as known his first
wife, whom he married in New York, has
taken no steps towards legal separation.
From Rochester. Agent Hutchins learned
that the Davy family were a though lot"
and that the girls had always been sus-
pected of being
MORE CLEVER THAN GOOD.
He received a response to a letter written
Mrs. Davy. the girls mother in which the
mother expressed her willingness that Lily
should go OIL and marry Byers, whom she
guessed was ''all right" in spite of the fact
that he was already twice married, but re-
Quested that Katy be returned home. This
was all that could be learned of the girls
history. At the house where they were
employed they worked we'll. and expressed
the hope that they would soon have money
enough made to carry them back home,
Lily declaring that she didn't care
whether she married Byers or not now."
This was the state of things, when yes
that the girls were suspected of having
been accomplices of Green, the burglar shot
at Jamestown, n. Y. The police at Roch-
ester had also telegraphed Mr.. Hutchins
Monday that Lily Davy had been married
| to a suspicious character named Charles
Dean, OF Green, in that city in January
last. Lily admitted having married Dean,
whom she said was street-car driver part
OF the time. She also admitted that he
| sometimes went by the name of Green
''when he would go away from home"
| Is Dean the burglar who was killed at
| Jamestown? He has not been seen at
Rochester for some time. When found he
had in his pocket picture of himself and
| two girls. This picture is claimed by A.
+. d. Stewart, chief of police of Hamilton,
| Ont, to be the picture of a burglar named
Green, who is supposed to have broken into
several houses in that city in June last, and
of Kittie and Lily Davy, whom Stewart
had but recently located in st. Paul, after
having pursued every clue in the
hope of establishing the suspicion
that they worked as accomplices of Green.
dressed in male attire Mr.. Stewart went
to jamestown to identity the remains of
the burglar and is positive that he is the
same man who, with Lily and Katy Davy.
committed the burglaries in Hamilton in
June. He had the girls brought to the
police headquarters and questioned them
closely at the time, and Lily Davy said that
she might have committed the burglary
dressed in male attire. This was regarded
as absurd at that time. but Mr.. Stewart is
now inclined to believe that Green and the
two girls acted together in a series of
barglarieS, the girls assuming male cos
tunes.
THE DAvY GIRLS,
although young, certainly do not lack i'm
boldneSs or nerve. That is evident from
| the fact that they came without money and
unaided. all the way from Rochester, Ny,
to Window. Mimi, beating their way. Be-
fore these new discoveries they confined their
stories to within the range of possibilities.
but when questioned yesterday by GLOBE
reporter, both girls repeatedly contradicted
themselves, and although there was un-
doubtedly some truth in what they said,
how much is question. When interro-
gated as to whether they were ever in
Hamilton or not, they refused to answer,
but finally Lily admitted that they were,
hut refused to account for their presence
there, or whether there was any one with
them.
""Do you know Chief Stewart?" she was
asked.
! ..Well, l should smile.''
|tRssDid he ever accuse you of being accom-
plices in burglary committed there?''
mo"
"Did he ever have you brought to the sta
tion and question you about your business
and who the man was with your
There wasn't any man with us?''
''Are you sure?"
"Well, if you know all about it, why do you
ask me?'
'Oh, go on and tell him what we was up
for" put in little Katy.
Lily hesitated minute and then told the
following story:
1--WE were working for an Italian named
Frank Perris, in grocery and candy store
at Il York street. and we wanted to leave
and they wouldn't let us. There were two
brothers of them. They locked I'D our
clothes in their trunks, and when they went
down to the stand in the market-they had q
stand in the market. too-and left US two girls
tending the store. l said: Kitty am goin'
to get my clothes, and leave We tried tn
unlock the trunks with buttou-hook but
we couldn't, so we broke open one Of the
trunks and they were there, and we took
our clothes and went away and STAYED a
week. Saturday night we went to the Saliva
tion army-we used to go there to have. fun
and they were there and saw us, and tha
next time went there be
put cop on our track. Cop number one.
and just as we were going
out Tom Johnson, pop boy was with us.
The cop said L want to speak to you.' said
Come up to the corner and speak to me- for
didn't want anybody to see US. He came lu
to the corner and asked me about it. and then
he says Come down to the police station
We went down to the station and Stewart was
not there, and the policeman couldn't under-
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